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The Super Robot Wars games. All of them. I'm limiting my suggestions to that, because an actual "Decent SRPG" list would have a good few dozen entries, and that's just PSX and earlier.

A google for SRPG will get you a larger list of similar games.

I know shine potions are simple to make and stuff, but I would still like an accessory that grants light.

 So bad.

The fairy bell thing seems to give out... about as much as the (now totally effing useless) orb of light used to. You, uh. Just have to kill a hardmode boss or two for it.

About the most luck I've had for light is just leaving autoclicker on while I'm toting a pwnhammer or flamarang or something along those lines. Which is bloody annoying and usually completely unfeasible in an actual fight.

So yeah, your best bet is probably just setting up a nice freaking-huge farm and getting yourself a good ol'30 stack of night owl + shine. Also, switch lighting to retro. The new stuff (and trippy) is nice, but it's considerably darker.

You used to be able to put mining helmets in vanity, or could do full molten as vanity, and they would provide light and fire trails, but that's been updated to that vanity items no longer provide special effects.

And, of course, molten armor no longer gives off any light at all, anyway

E: I appreciate trying to make the game more atmospheric and pretty, but functionally it's just made it so we have to fight low-light conditions even harder than we used to. Gets in the way of things, bleh.

Depends on the ninja. Th'real-world stabby kind, well, you could, but they'd be better off stabbing someone that's asleep.

The mystical pseudo-magic jutsu spitters (In the strategy world, I'd probably point at ol'Ogre Battle for an example, but newer folks could wave toward stuff like Naruto.) might be at home in the battlefield. Those are closer to spec-ops or heavy assault specialists than assassination monkeys.

It would be nice to have certain (magical) professions that are more limited (read: Less versatile, less useful outside of combat) but more directly combat-capable. Spellswords, paladins, said shock-trooper ninja, stuff like that. A division, perhaps muddy, between tactical and strategic level spellspitters.

I'm terribly fond of the stuff I keep running into in Fate/stay night fanfiction, in which (simplifying, here) the difference between a combat mage and a normal one is the difference between a scientist and an engineer, theoretical knowledge vs. practical application. Someone that can do just about anything given the effort, contrasted to one that's figured out and practiced practical applications of a smaller repertoire of abilities.

Mostly, though, I just love the thought of non-worldshaking magic being very present on the battlefield. Having all that magic and not using it, in a magically active world, is like having gunpowder and piano wire and not using it for demolition and garrotes. Even non-magic users want enchanted armor and fireball wands.

Edit: Though that rambling did lead me to a question: Will your army composition effect itself? If you've got a bunch of magi, will the bog-standard soldiers start picking up cantrips and minorly enchanted kit? If magi and normal soldiers don't get along, what about if you've got some kind of inbetween, say the above mentioned spellswords (fighter/mage types)? Will a sizable number of clerics/paladin types start converting the rest of your army? More maliciously, will an army with a heavy dose of necro/biomancers have the rank and file start occasionally getting an odd mutation and a morale penalty (/intelligence loss and increase in loyalty, for a smaller penalty to a larger number of fellow soldiers )?

The creatures, no. The biome itself (the grass, etc.) spreads just fine.

Does? You mean... dies? No, once you've freed them once, they keep coming back.

As for wyverns, well. Sky islands have a really good chance of getting them to spawn. So does making a doublejump off a decent sized hill, some days.

That said, there's nothing stopping them from coming to visit you on the surface, they just seem somewhat discouraged if you're on the ground. You'll eventually have one stop by to rape you sideways for tea and cake regardless of how low you stay, so long as you're not actively underground. They seem to prefer showing up at night.

And yeah, with spectre boots + cloud in a balloon and wings, you can make a standing jump from the larger hills to the world's roof on a small map.

Dude the worms would be so awesome. It'd be a nightmare for base security though, if we accept there's multiple kinds of worms.

If they can prevent spawning near a sufficient concentration of NPCs, I imagine they can direct the AI to keep out of a particular radius of th'critters, too.

I guess I'm just hoping (and, iirc, it's been said that it'll come, eventually) there was more interaction between the corruption and the hallow. I could totally see a message along the lines of "A murder of corruptors pass overhead!" as 15-20 of the buggers launch a corruption attack on the hallow. Laser snails laying down anti-air fire in response while sprites valiantly attempt to catch corruption spit with their bodies. Occasionally, a squad of chaos elementals would tag along with a group of those hallow worms, attempting to exorcise the corruption from below. Groups of mixed equipment skeletons below ground and clown-escorted armors above would fight hallow/corruption mobs at the edges of the unchanged lands, holding off the spread. Stuff to make the post-wall world live, not just react to your presence. The future, I guess...

Anyway, re: chaos elementals. They're really easy to lock down with a sword or spear, and harmless if they can't actually run into you. I find them less annoying than skeleton archers or illuminat bats, honestly, plus they're more mechanically interesting. Which is nice

Depends. If it's two blocks wide, no. Three or more, yes.

Major caveat, specifically when dealing with corruption -- the corruptors' (upgraded spitting soul eaters) ranged attack spreads corruption wherever it hits, apparently. I've had sky islands end up corrupted because of that, so be careful if you've got corruption right up to your break. One wrong spawn and a dodged spitball, especially if you don't notice it flying off into your base, can send the whole thing to purple hell.

Haven't noticed any hallow equivalent to this, fortunately. Might be wise to preemptively hallow up the edges, just to prevent it from happening.

Unicorns and th'mfooken laser snails. Unicorns actually aren't that bad, providing they don't land on you. The laser snails, though... those are a bitch.

Honestly, hallow at night is worse than corruption at night. Th'day, though... hallow's more peaceful. Just sprites, which are non-issues, and unicorns. No snails. Corruption still has corruptors and world feeders during the day. No grippers though, at least on the surface.

But yeah. Load up whatever part of the map you're fond of with npcs to stop stuff from spawning and let the rest of the place go straight to hell.

E: As for stopping the corruption... best bet I could think of would be to hallow up a world before you kill the wall, probably via imported holy water. Once th'wall's killed, go back in with more water and clean up whatever patches of corruption pop up. Assuming the unicorns don't sodomize you in the process.